The morning
Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks. Studying
Genesis in the SSnet.org series Lesson 6, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to
your heart. The Topic today
is: "The Babel Coalition". The Opening
Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living God" The Sabbath
School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org in the Teacher's Edition is on
page 76 and for the laymen edition or Standard Edition, on page 50. The SSnet.org
site allows anyone, anywhere to read the lesson in their own language. Choose
your own language to see God speaking also to your heart. ---Abraham came
back from Eygpt. The Famine stela was also published by Miriam Lichtheim. It
dates to the time of the Ptolemees in Egypt. ---The Pharaoh
at that time in 2185 BC was Neterkhet. ---The Famine
Stela is Papyrus Vienna D 6319 and saying "I was mourning [crying] on my
throne...In a period of seven years, grain was scant [no grain]. Kernels were
dried up Scarce was
every kind of food ---"Every
one was in distress" the Stela said. ---Sometime
before 2161 BC and after 2185 BC Pharaoh Neterkhet ruled and the famine on the
stela sounds the same as Genesis 12:10 "And there was famine in the
land..." ---The years
2165-2153 was the time of Amraphel which is a Hebrew reading of Hammurabi, and
earlier one than the great Law collector Hammurabi of 1790 BC. ---Scholars
like Schrader suggested also that Amraphel is a semitic form of Hammurabi. Why there is an
-el at the end? Because
Mesopotamian writers placed [d = dingir = god] at the beginning of kings'
names. Hebrews would translate it as -el because they read from right to left
and [d] would be at their end. ---The
geomorphology of Sodom and Gemorrah area at the Dead Sea was beautiful in 2153
BC. Genesis 13:10 "And everywhere...like a garden of the Lord". ---Five kings
retired there in this "Beverly Hills" of Abraham and Lot's time. Because Abraham
lied in Egypt, colonization of Sodom and Gemorrah area came from Babylon. Because of
Ishmael in his life, Lot was arrested by this empire. Amraphel
started reign in 2162 BC. Minus 13 years and that is the year Lot was grabbed
in 2149 BC. Sodom and
Gemorrah was destroyed after 2149 BC. Ishmael was
born within the colonization period by Amraphel = Hammurabi I of the beautiful
Sodom and Gemorrah valley basin. The Siddim
Valley.